furnace
noun /ˈfɜːnɪs/
/ˈfɜːrnɪs/
- a space surrounded on all sides by walls and a roof for heating metal or glass to very high temperatures
- It's like a furnace (= very hot) in here!
Extra Examples- The furnaces burned fiercely.
- There was enough coal to fire the furnaces.
- Emissions from power stations and industrial furnaces pollute the atmosphere.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- blazing
- fiery
- hot
- …
- stoke
- fire
- burn
- (especially North American English) (also boiler British and North American English)a container in which water is heated to provide hot water and heating in a building or to produce steam in an engineOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- coal
- electric
- gas
- …
- install
- replace
- room
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French fornais(e), from Latin fornax, fornac-, from fornus ‘oven’.